Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Interpretation
Embrace the experiences life brings, as they are ultimately beneficial.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we should allow life to unfold naturally, without resisting or trying to control it. By trusting in the process of life, we can find comfort in the idea that even the challenging moments have their purpose and contribute to our personal growth and understanding.
In practice
During a motivational talk about embracing change, you can use this quote to illustrate the importance of accepting life's journey.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.
Suddenly youβre ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god youβre alive and its spectacular.
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.
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